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    straggle


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    1. Sim waited for everyone to straggle in, and then he sat


    2. His real worry, his father had told them, was that the animals that managed to straggle back would be enough to warn of the “catastrophe” that had occurred


    3. The last thing we need to do is straggle into our terminal in full view of God knows who, looking like a bunch of beggars


    4. The last thing we need to do is straggle


    5. Doors opened and a straggle of people appeared from various directions assembling on the periphery of the machine, curious and expectant


    6. Whizzing up the outside of the stationary snaking caravan of lorries, we smugly presented ourselves, passports in hand to the lounging straggle of soldiers


    7. Nevertheless, rewards also come to those who have no real plan except to straggle the few yards into town to the first eating establishment regardless of merit


    8. A straggle of dunces held the tandem, while a kindergarten of ragged urchins* fought over who was going to operate the village pump, which obviously supplied the entire population with water and gave them somewhere to wash clothes or mildly haemorrhaging tourists


    9. as others straggle behind


    10. The dinner lasted a good hour and a half, and at the end of that time they would begin to straggle out again, flushed and using toothpicks as they strolled to the tables under the trees, where the exhausted waiters would presently bring them breakfast-cups of coffee and cakes

    11. Apparently they were, although they had to straggle their way upward in ones and twos, a line that stretched almost all the way back to the first floor by the time I reached the second story


    12. The road below turned out long and winding in some parts, but it stayed mostly on a straight course southwards; the Saxons were trotting in their band, but were beginning to straggle out after another hour


    13. The sun rose to a warm morning and as the leagues dragged on, the Saxons began to straggle out even more, they must have been on the march for more than a day, for reasons we could have no knowledge of, maybe they were on a revenge attack for something done to them in the past


    14. Campion that other rabbits might straggle more widely


    15. pushing back the hair that had begun to straggle


    16. In addition to these regulars, a goodly amount of single women straggle through, usually with bruises


    17. They had crossed the enchanted stream; but beyond it the path seemed to straggle on just as before, and in the forest they could see no change


    18. Early in the forenoon parties of jaded men began to straggle into the village, but the strongest of the citizens continued searching


    1. Outside several brick-heads straggled past, making crying noises until they drew level then howled a juvenile howl to their friends inside who promptly got up, paid their bill and left


    2. The children straggled along, playing, laughing and talking


    3. The murmuring and muttering gaggle of anonymous, pudgy-faced men in all their various uniforms straggled from the tent


    4. As the rest straggled in, the volume of grumbling increased until at the rear of the entourage came those who would have chosen to remain imprisoned except for the remonstrations of more hardy souls


    5. Moshe found himself sternly urging those who straggled to even greater effort amid the moans of resistance, while thinking, It’s as if I’m dreaming again, but no, this is really happening


    6. "Twelve Viets out of a platoon of 40 straggled back to My Tho that night


    7. As the rest straggled in, the volume of grumbling


    8. Most of them straggled along the narrow road, with byres and barns and other outbuildings behind


    9. prepared when the other three occupants of the house straggled into the kitchen


    10. Presently, pushing through a screen of vine-tangled branches, he came into a comparatively open space where the trees straggled, unencumbered by undergrowth, and saw before him the wide, pillared portico of the palace

    11. which a small footpath straggled


    12. They both straggled back inside and Angela took the pie from the oven, wrapped a few old dishcloths around the pie tin, and started for the door


    13. Shift workers straggled to their stations, some arriving well after the sun had risen


    14. had come undone and straggled over the floor


    15. The alarms continued to blare as they straggled behind the enemy


    16. While everyone straggled in the dorm in pajamas and few struggled with face scrubs, I decided to write to mum


    17. With a view to assist his plans by any suggestion of his own, and to strengthen the temptation, he left the beech, and straggled, as if without an object, to the spot where Le Renard was seated


    18. A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude


    19. It straggled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest


    20. Gwenda was bursting to tell him the news, but she had to wait until the group straggled out along the road, and she and her husband were separated from the others by a few yards

    21. We straggled down quickly through the rain to the cars


    22. When the milking was finished for the evening they straggled indoors, where Mrs Crick, the dairyman's wife—who was too respectable to go out milking herself, and wore a hot stuff gown in warm weather because the dairymaids wore prints—was giving an eye to the leads and things


    23. but, when he turned behind the apse, he was suddenly struck by the dazzling note of the flowers that straggled over the white ground


    24. From thence the tortuous shoots straggled to the wall, clutched it, and ran the whole length of the house, ending near the wood-pile, where the logs were ranged with as much precision as the books in a library


    25. Riding swiftly into range they shot arrows at the Orcs that straggled behind, and several of them fell; then the riders wheeled away out of the range of the answering bows of their enemies, who shot wildly, not daring to halt


    26. Once in milder days there must have been a fair thicket in the ravine, but now, after some fifty yards, the trees came to an end, though old broken stumps straggled on almost to the cliff's brink


    27. There sat Thjoden and Jomer, and before them on the ground sat a strange squat shape of a man, gnarled as an old stone, and the hairs of his scanty beard straggled on his lumpy chin like dry moss


    28. However, one by one they straggled in at last and took shelter under the tent, cold, scared, and streaming with water; but to have company in misery seemed something to be grateful for


    29. A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates


    30. The buccaneers straggled out in an unkempt column, while ahead of them a swarm of busy Indians, drawing energy from their sanguinary dream, hacked and slashed out the trail through the jungle with their heavy knives

    31. The ranks straggled along in disorder


    32. Those soldiers who straggled from the line of march in search of food, fell into the hands of the Cossacks and the armed peasants


    1. Heather blew the straggles of hair out of her face so she could see me


    2. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched


    1. of straggling Lavatera blow west with the wind


    2. The chequerboard tile-work path is cracked and overgrown with tufts of new grass, the pale, washed-out petals of long dead hydrangea flowers and the straggling, early season buds of pink Campion


    3. The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture, just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce


    4. The group hid behind a short wall, behind the last straggling pair of Warlin soldiers


    5. It descended upon the huddled masses who, in dark and strange surroundings, threatened to give in to the same panic that had spooked the straggling animals down the same road that the main herd had taken


    6. straggling animals down the same road that the main herd had taken


    7. While there were straggling


    8. of land, planted the seeds from the straggling crop plants that


    9. I parked the hearse just out of sight, waited out a few straggling visitors and grasped the iron crib, just as the children apparated


    10. He shook his head, glancing at the stunted trees, at the marching woods below, a green mass which seemed to send out tendrils straggling up the sides of the cliffs

    11. It was like a red sea, with each wave a straggling line of corpses


    12. Broken columns glimmered among the trees, the straggling lines of crumbling walls meandered off into the shadows, and under his feet were broad paves, cracked and bowed by roots growing beneath


    13. Kerim Shah was hurrying up the slope, his hill-men behind him in a straggling crescent


    14. Across the road from the tavern stood a row of deserted huts, shaded by straggling palm trees, and occupied only by bats and jackals


    15. Soundlessly as a shadow he drew her behind the nearest hut, beneath the straggling palms


    16. 'A devil of a custom this is!' growled Conan, as he led the way toward the city, paralleling the road but keeping behind the huts and straggling trees


    17. The oliphants sounded a fanfare of triumph all over the plain, and the hoofs of the victors crunched in the breasts of the vanquished as all the straggling, shining lines converged inward like the spokes of a glittering wheel, to the spot where the last survivor still waged unequal strife


    18. The southern horizon was fringed with flame by night, and in the day straggling pillars of smoke drifted upward; in the cities and plains to the south men were dying, thrones were toppling and castles going up in flames


    19. He fell in beside Valbroso and rode up the straggling road to the top of the hill where the gaunt castle stood


    20. At sunset of the next day Tarascus came up with his host, dusty and weary from hard marching, the footmen straggling hours behind the horsemen

    21. And to her straggling brood the partridge calls;


    22. The problem is that our population has really grown in the country and the problem is that overall we have to many ill people in this country and it is straggling the healthcare system like we have not seen


    23. So, what makes it remain in its orbit without moving a little away or far away from the earth? Does not that indicate the existence of a heaven that stops its moving away from the earth and its straggling in the outer space?!


    24. She watched Zax plunge through the straggling clusters of wounded, the V-shaped ridge of his tail sweeping a wide path, decimating those he hadn’t trampled directly overtop


    25. Since I have lived in this big straggling place, full of paths and copses where I am sure of being left alone, with wide fields and heath and forests beyond, and so much room to move and breathe in, I feel choked, oppressed, suffocated, in anything small and perfect


    26. Everyone nodded as we drove further into city, passing half-eaten corpses and straggling zombies on the way


    27. Removing straggling hairs from around the edges of your eyebrows and also removing any very bushy hairs will improve the outline of your eyebrows


    28. Before them on an upward slope was Kökensee, one long straggling street of low cottages lying up against the sunset, its church behind it, and near the church two linden trees which were the trees, she knew for she had often made him tell her, in front of her home


    29. Whenever there was a spare half hour, such as between where dinner ended and tea began, she would run out to the lime-trees, and pacing up and down that leafy place with the gooseberry bushes and vegetables and straggling accidental flowers of the garden lying hotly in the sun between her and the back of the house, she learned German words by heart


    30. Ahead Kerry neared the fork in the tunnel and he turned to look over his shoulder at the straggling group of Drongs trailing out behind

    31. Sammi turned to Nathan- who was straggling behind her- and narrowed her eyes, placing a hand on her hips


    32. He resorted to his pint of wine for consolation, drank it all in a few minutes, and fell asleep on his arms, with his hair straggling over the table, and a long winding-sheet in the candle dripping down upon him


    33. These, fenced in by hedges, are in the middle of courtyards full of straggling buildings, wine-presses, cart-sheds and distilleries scattered under thick trees, with ladders, poles, or scythes hung on to the branches


    34. They were walking in silence in the dark, tired, straggling apart


    35. The party was straggling


    36. At last they came into the straggling grey village of Crich, that lies high


    37. He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode


    38. The boys formed a straggling line in front of the teacher


    39. Notwithstanding the swiftness of their flight, one of the Indians had found an opportunity to strike a straggling fawn with an arrow, and had borne the more preferable fragments of the victim, patiently on his shoulders, to the stopping place


    40. A conjurer must have his time, like a straggling priest in the settlements

    41. straggling Highland soldiers of a band


    42. He was leaning on the shoulder of his favorite Selim, and he drove us all before him, as a shepherd would his straggling flock


    43. For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink


    44. I saw the outside of the note, addressed in straggling, irregular characters, very unlike Holmes's usual precise hand


    45. It gave a prospect across the moor through a gap in the plantation, and revealed certain figures half a mile off straggling through the heather


    46. Their progress was straggling and broken, slower than that which Holly had made with his picked band of three


    47. And first came straggling in through the land gate the armed mob of all colours, complexions, types, and states of raggedness, calling themselves the Sulaco National Guard, and commanded by Senor Gamacho


    48. (Surely Fanny wouldn’t be so worried about mother, betraying her inner turmoil only by the straggling gray locks that hung from her her brother Hugh


    49. When he had finished she sent him off to the back yard to play and watched him toddle across the straggling grass to his playhouse with great relief


    50. I knew his letters of old; I had had them at Ravenna; I should not have been disappointed; but that day as I tore the stiff sheet across and let it fall into the basket, and gazed resentfully across the grimy gardens and irregular backs of Bayswater, at the jumble of soil-pipes and fire-escapes and protuberant little conservatories, I saw, in my mind's eye, the pale face of Anthony Blanche, peering through the straggling leaves as it had peered through the candle flames at Thame, and heard, above the murmur of traffic, his clear tones


























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    Synonyms for "straggle"

    straggle sprawl depart digress sidetrack roam rove explore stroll wander range encompass

    "straggle" definitions

    a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons)


    wander from a direct or straight course


    go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way